Dystopia

Dystopia is a form of literature that explores social and political structures. It is a creation of a nightmare world - unlike its opposite, Utopia, which is an ideal world.

Dystopia is often characterized by an authoritarian or totalitarian form of government. It often features multiple kinds of repressive social control systems, a lack or total absence of individual freedoms and expressions, and a state of constant warfare or violence.

Many novels combine Dystopia and Utopia, often as a metaphor for the different directions humanity can take in its choices, ending up with one of the two poss
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The Last Murder at the End of the World
Baby X
The Morningside
Memory Piece
Cascade Failure (Ambit's Run, #1)
Those Beyond the Wall (The Space Between Worlds, #2)
The Stricken
The Truth of the Aleke (Forever Desert, #2)
These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart
Hybrid (The Hybrid #2)
It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
Toxxic (Moths #2)
The Last Zookeeper
Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2)
Your Shadow Half Remains
Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)
Annie Bot
The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
The Toll (Arc of a Scythe, #3)
The School for Good Mothers
Light Bringer (Red Rising Saga, #6)
Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)
Vow of Thieves (Dance of Thieves, #2)
Edge of Collapse (Edge of Collapse, #1)
Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2)
I Cheerfully Refuse
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #3)
The Candy House
The Butcher's Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #5)
The Last Stars in the Sky
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. RowlingCity of Bones by Cassandra ClareHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
YA Books Far Better than Twilight
3,085 books — 4,789 voters

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. MaasRed Queen by Victoria AveyardMermen by Mimi Jean PamfiloffAn Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa TahirSix of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
New Series (2015)
460 books — 1,303 voters
The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsDivergent by Veronica RothCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsInsurgent by Veronica Roth
Best Dystopian Books for Teens
514 books — 2,265 voters

Stolen Songbird by Danielle L. JensenThe Young Elites by Marie LuThe Iron Trial by Holly BlackSnow Like Ashes by Sara RaaschThe Winner's Curse by Marie Rutkoski
First In Series (2014)
677 books — 1,570 voters

Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
1984
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
Fahrenheit 451
Legend (Legend, #1)
The Selection (The Selection, #1)
Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)
Matched (Matched, #1)
Brave New World
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)

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